ARE THE FIRST FRUIT FEASTS IN THE BIBLE?
‘He chose to give us Birth through the Word of Truth, that
we would be a Kind of First Fruits of
His Creation’. -James 1:18
The Rapture will be as a Birth, a Harvest, and that of a First
Fruit. Which one? The First Fruits of the New Wine that
corresponds to the 2nd ‘Shavuot’ Count of 50 Days from Nisan
15, one contends. Critics of the Pentecost New Wine Theory
assert that because the Feast of New Wine is not explicitly in
the Bible, it is ‘Extra-Biblical’ and therefore not to be
considered even relative or relevant. If that is the case,
then because the word ‘Rapture’ is not in the Bible,
explicitly and in English, GOD-forbid we believe in it.
The same goes for the Argument of the words Trinity and Bible,
etc. As to Extra-Biblical Feasts being augmented and
assimilated in the Bible by the Jews? There is the example of
Hanukkah. Nowhere in the Bible is the word Hanukkah taught nor
prescribed by YHVH to celebrate it. Yet we see Jesus
celebrating it in the Gospels. Does not Jesus know that he is
in the ‘Wrong’ for doing that. How dare He.
So, as to the issue of the First Fruit Feasts, that of the
Wheat, Wine and Oil, one will attempt to show that indeed,
they were noted in the Bible and in fact tithed from them. The
Bible is not an ‘All-in-All’ Mechanical Manuel or Farmer’s
Almanac that lists every possible Detail of Everything. True,
the 3 Penta-Feasts of the Wheat, Wine and Oil are not
explicitly noted to be celebrated in the Torah. A Reason is
because the 3 First Fruit Feasts were tied to the Temple and
the Agricultural Cycles.
When the Temples were destroyed and the People of the Promised
Land were Evicted, they ‘Lost’ sight and practice of such Time
Markers, etc. In Time, in the Caves of Qumran is where the
Essenes preserved that Lost Knowledge because at the center of
their Core Beliefs is that 1 Day, a Temple in the Future would
require them again. And these 3 First Fruit Feasts were to be
rediscovered at the End of Time for that very purpose. They
are to be reconsidered and applied to the End Times Timeline.
Why?
In one’s Estimation, it is because the 3rd Temple is coming
and the Church Age is closing that will end with the Rapture.
And it is thus, one’s Conjecture that the Feast of New Wine,
being a First Fruit is what will coincide with the Birth of
the Birde, i.e., the Rapture. Was it any Coincidence that
after World War 2, in 1947 that the Dead Sea Scrolls were
discovered? And that included the Temple Scrolls that recorded
the 3 first fruit feasts, etc. Since 1947, Israel was
‘Reborn’, Re-Discovered. The Language of Hebrew also came back
to Life as it was a Dead Language for nearly 2000 Years.
Shavuot is not Pentecost
And thus, the discovery of the Temple Scrolls, of which it
is the longest Scroll, proved that this Ancient Sect of
Judaism observed the 3 First Fruit Festivals. Why? Again,
because YHVH saw it fit to have them be rediscovered for the
Last Generation to contemplate on them and see their
Connection to conclude the Church Age and Prophecy specific to
the Rapture and its possible Timing, I.e., the Feast of New
Wine.
Obviously, this has been one’s Working Theory for Years. The
other Argument is that Shavuot, Sivan 6 that the Jews only
celebrate in Early June is the same as what the Christians
Celebrate in Acts 2. Not so. As one has presented, Sivan 6 was
10 Day out from the Israelites reaching the Foot of Mount
Sinai. The Jews in their Commentaries acknowledge that Shavuot
is just a Commemoration of the Giving of the Law, not the
exact Date when Moses came down the Mountain with the 2
Tablets of Stone, etc.
Then the other Augment is that what occurred in Acts 2, with
all those Multitudes and the 3000 Jews getting saved is
‘Proof’ that it was the June Shavuot. Shavuot or what is the
Feast of Weeks was 1 of the 3 Mandated Assemblies that all
Jewish Men of Military Age had to present themselves at the
Temple in Jerusalem. Not so. In Acts 2:5, the Greek word
translated as the Jews ‘Dwelling’ means a Permanent Residence.
It means that all these Jews, although from all of the Roman
Empire, were not Pilgrims come to observe and assemble at the
June and Jewish Shavuot, etc. This is Scriptural Proof that
explains why it could not have been the Feast of Shavuot. It
is because the Acts 2 Pentecost, corresponding to the First
Fruits of the New Wine was and is not a Pilgrimage Feast. The
people who heard the Disciples on Pentecost speaking in the
Language from where the Jews immigrated back to Israel were
Residents.
Note that for the Year 2025, the Jewish Shavuot or Sivan 6
occurred on June 2. This was the 153 Day of the Gregorian
Year. What was unique about it, is that the Jewish Shavuot has
not occurred on the 153 Day in the past 10 Year Prior nor will
occur in the Post 2025 Years. So the next Argument is when to
‘Count the Morrow after the Sabbath’. If one uses the Exodus
Timeline, that being from Nisan 15 as the Morrow after the
Passover, which is considered a High Day Sabbath, then the
following.
June 2, 2025 + 50 Days = July 23, 2025
= New Wine Acts 2 Pentecost End of Wheat Harvest (the
Rapture Timing?)
Here below are the primary Calendar Types that incorporate the
3 Feasts of the Wheat, Wine and Oil. However, they differ
based on when they start the ‘Morrow after the Sabbath’ Day
Count. Even these Communities that do recognize that there are
3 First Fruit Feast have a Discrepancy of Interpreting when
and what the Morrow after the Sabbath should be and start
from. One Calendar starts the Omer Count from Nisan 15,
another will start it on Sunday, the Day after the Weekly
Sabbath. Then another Callender will wait 1 complete Weekly
Cycle to start from there and then, etc. For the Year 2025,
one will list the 3 Main Type of Calendars considering when
the Feast of the New Wine is to be celebrated, etc.
ESSENE CALENDAR
Festival of New Wine (Dead Sea Scroll 4Q394) is based on
the Enoch Calendar of 364 Days. The Essene Calendar has
their First Fruits of New Wine Date on: July 21, 2025.
ZADOKITE CALENDAR
The New Year is determined after the Spring Equinox on
March 20. The Zadokite Calendar has their First Fruits of
New Wine Date on: July 27, 2025.
HEBREW CALENDAR
The Hebrew Calendar, based on the Hillel II has
Tammuz 17 on July 15. Note that Rabbinical Jews do not
acknowledge this Feast any longer. Then 1 Week later would
be New Wine on July 23, 2025. This corroborated a Nisan 15
Start Date.
If one uses the Year 2025 and the Counting of the Omer from
Nisan 15, then the following.
Sunday Night April 13, 2025
1 Day after Passover on Nisan 15 = The Omer. Commemoration
of the Exodus.
+ 50 Days
= June 2-3 (153th Day of Year) Jewish Feast of Weeks or
Sivan 6
+ 50 Days
= July 22-23 (99th Day as in Sinai and New Wine) Possible
Rapture Timing?
Now, one does acknowledge that if one does start the Day Count
from a Sunday after the Weekly Sabbath, after the Passover,
i.e., Nisan 18, it would correspond to a July 26-27 Date. The
Solar Calendar and the Zadok Calendar use this Day Count. So,
for the Year 2025, it is July 27, not accounting for the
Jewish Day beginning on July 26 at Sunset, etc. See Website
for the ‘Solar Calendar’. In fact, when one 1st started to
research the 3 First Fruits of 50 Days each, one started from
this Time Marker.
The following will now delve into the Scriptural Evidence, one
believes supports one’s Notion that the 3 First Fruit Feast
were acknowledged in the Old Testament and were even tithed
from. The Fenton Translation is more accurate to prove that
there is a Subsequent 50 Day Count, for a total of 100 Days,
all-inclusive. This puts the Wheat Harvest ending in July, the
True Shavuot. Note that the word, ‘Shavuot’ just means ‘50’.
This is to say that each of the 3 First Fruit Feasts are
technically all Shavuots.
Fenton Translation
One just has to ask, from which Sabbath and which First Fruit?
The Wheat, Wine or Oil? Here lies the Confusion among the
Christians that have allowed the Jewish Sages to confuse the
issue. Why? The True Pentecost of Acts 2, the 2nd Shavuot of
the New Wine commemorates the Changing of Covenants, as it was
on Mount Sinai. The Acts 2 Event legitimized the Church
Body on Earth as the New Agent to be handling, teaching,
preaching and evangelizing the World with Power from High,
etc.
This Divine Commission is what the Jews had failed to
accomplish. Notwithstanding, Israel is in a ‘Time-Out’ until
the Age of Grace is completed and then YHVH will direct His
Attention back to Israel to deal, once and for all, with their
‘Stiff-Neck’ Rebellion and Rejection of Jesus. This is the
purpose of the Last 7-Year Tribulation Period and why YHVH
reserved that Last prophetic Week. It is to complete Daniel
70th Prophetic Week of Years, etc. Here is the Fenton
Translation of Leviticus 23:15-17.
‘You shall also count for yourselves from the Say after the
Sabbath that you bring the Wave-Sheaf, 7 Sabbaths. They must
be complete.
Then after the 7 Sabbath, you shall count 50 Days, when
you shall present a New Offering to the Ever-Living. You
shall bring from your Dwellings 2 Wave Cakes of 2/10 of Fine
Flour. They shall be Fermented, -- baked in an Oven for the
Ever-Living’. -Leviticus 23:15-17
Here now will be the other Old Testament Scriptural Proof of
how the Feast of New Wine was interwoven in the Timing of the
Seasonal Crops of the Yearly Harvest Cycles.
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NEHEMIAH 12:44
This Verse instructs on how there are only to be 3 Feasts of
the Jews gathering.
NEHEMIAH 12:44
This Verse shows how the First Fruit Harvests were
offered by presenting the Tithe.
NEHEMIAH 13:5
This Verse discloses how the New Wine and
the New Oil were offered at those Times, corresponding. It
is because the Wine and Oil are Summer Harvests, etc.
Note also that it states that the Wheat Harvest was
coinciding or concluding, in one’s Interpretation, when the
Wine Harvest began.
NEHEMIAH 13:12
This Verse cannot get any more clear: ‘Then brought all
Judah the Tithe of the Corn [Wheat] and the New Wine and the
Oil unto the Treasuries’.
JOEL 2:15-19 AND
2:24
Then the Bible speaks of a Time when Wheat is
still on the Threshing Floor while the
New Wine and the New Oil are in the
Vats.
HAGGAI 1:10-11
AND NUMBERS 18:11-12
Early June, that is the Jewish Shavuot or Sivan 6 is a
Spring -Time Maker. The Grapes and the Olives are barely
budding as they are a Summer Crop and Harvest, etc.
EXODUS 9:18-35
In this Passage, what one needs to observe is how, when the
Plague of Hail came down on Egypt, their Crops were
destroyed, except the Wheat. And? This proves that at the
Time of the Exodus, being in April or Nisan is when the
Wheat was just barely breaking through the Ground and no
Kernels were formed. This means that by Sivan 6 or Shavuot,
the ‘Feast of Weeks’ was only pertaining to the of the First
Fruits of the Wheat, not its Harvest, etc.
HISTORICAL TEXTS
Notice what Philo, an Ancient Jewish Sage said about the
Feast of Weeks that the Jews presently call ‘Shavuot’ and
the Christians erroneously call Pentecost. What this will
show and prove, in one’s Mind is that the Ancient Jews knew
that Shavuot is in June. And that there was then an
anticipation of the True and Complete Shavuot or Pentecost.
‘The Solemn Assembly on the Occasion of the Festival of the
Sheaf having such a Great Privileges,
is the Prelude to another Festival of still
Greater Importance; for form this Day the
50 Day is reckoned, making up the
Sacred Number of 7, 70s, with the additions of a Unit as a
seal of the Whole’.
Source
THE WORKS OF PHILO
The Special Laws, II, the 7th Festival, XXX
(176), Page 584
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This is why in the New Testament, it states, ‘When
Pentecost had fully come’, etc.
The Acts 2 Event is that ‘Greater Feast’ and because it
coincides with the First Fruit Feast of the New Wine, and
the New Covenant. And thus, one contends, perhaps the
Rapture’s Timing. Now the following Section will
consider the following from what Jesus alluded to in terms of
when a Rapture-Type Event is to occur. The Evidence is that
the Time and Place will be at the End of a Summer What
Harvest. It will be when the Wheat has been harvested and
begun to be Milled.
‘And they were oblivious, until the Flood came and swept
them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of
Man. 2 Men will be in the Field: one will be taken and the
other left. 2 Women will be grinding at the Mill: one will
be taken and the other left’. -Matthew 24:39-41
By Definition, Millstones are large, flat, circular Stones
used for Grinding Grains like Wheat into Flour. They typically
come in pairs, with 1 Stone stationary, the Bed-Stone and the
other rotating above it, the Runner-Stone. They create a
Grinding Action. Here is a really Good Sermon of the Olivet
Discourse and how Pastor Nolan delineates what pertains to the
Rapture and that of the 2nd Coming, that is confused by most.
Note how the Timing of the Rapture is tied to the End of the
Wheat Harvest as the Women are Grinding it at the Mill.
Video
JESUS AND THE END OF THE WORLD
Pastor Allen Nolan Sermon
Calendar Calculations
One will tie all this up in how when one studied and plotted
the Exodus Timeline, something was off. So, in acknowledging
varying Calendar Calculations, one has used the Exodus Account
as a Standard from which the Day Count is purely arrived at,
and in that way. And as noted, the Traditional Interpretation
of Leviticus 23 only stipulates the Count to go as far as the
First Fruits of the Wheat or what the Jews presently call
Shavuot only, and the Christians, in one’s Estimation misapply
it to being the Acts 2 Event of Pentecost. Here is the Problem
and one's Augment against it.
1) If
only the 1st 50 Day Count is used and argued exclusively,
being the Acts 2 Event of Pentecost, realize that the
First Fruits of the New Wine are impossible to have been
available and ready to drink, as ‘New Wine’.
2) If Shavuot or the 1st 50 Day
Count is considered one in the same as the Christian
Pentecost of Acts 2, then realize that the Typology of
Boaz waiting to marry Ruth on the very same Day the Wheat
Harvest occurred, totally contradicts how it is specially
stated in Scripture that they waiting until both the
Barley and the Wheat Harvest was completed. This means
that it would have been impossible for them to have
married in a June Shavuot Timing, which is the beginning
of the Wheat Harvest, not its End, etc.
As to the Feast of New Wine corresponding to the Month of Av,
and the 9th Day? As one has stated, the Day Count is
erroneously being correlated in one’s Estimation. The Acts 2
Pentecost New Wine Event does correspond with the Golden Calf
Incident. But it is not on the 9th of Av per the Exodus
Timeline. Perhaps, but one did the best to read the account in
Exodus and correspond the Event to the Days on the Timeline.
True, one cannot know for sure on this side of the Rapture.
But one is convinced that YHVH is precise, to the Year, Month,
Week, Day and Hour. He is the Great Mathematician after all.
He does leave Clues but Humans are Fallen and have limited
Comprehension. And it is True, the People that are handling
such Knowledge, Revelation and Understanding are confused
about it, aside from 99% of the World that does not even seek
to inquire about such Things, to their detriment.
But to a degree that there is so much Calendar Confusion, on
purpose one would say, is enough reason to have most
Bible-Believers just ‘Opt-Out’ of such Contention that does
unfortunately Divide the Body of Christ. It Is good to be
reminded though, that Prophecy, the End Time, when is the
Rapture, or when does the Tribulation Period start, or who is
the AntiChrist and when the 3rd Temple is to begin is of no
‘Private Interpretation’. All such Events, as foretold in the
Bible will occur, regardless of one’s attempt to discern their
Timing.
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Books
NEW WINE RAPTURE THEORY
The purpose of this Book, the 4th in a Tetralogy is about
expounding on the Notion and Theory that the Pentecost of Acts
2 was and is on the Feasts of the New Wine.
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LEO NEW YEAR RAPTURE THEORY
People often say the following when asked about, ‘When is the
Rapture to occur?’ They say, ‘No One Knows the Day or the
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PENTECOST NEW WINE
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Day Count is what Acts 2 was and is about.
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